Because everything said here helps me so much!
I would like to sent cvs to agencies but I
Don't know what to write I them.... What do you
Write in cvs???? Thank you
Cv
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Re: Cv
Normal CVs are a bit different, and tend to concentrate on education and then work history, but performer CVs don't worry so much about education, because the readers want more useful stuff - so you get things like playing age - really important - if you are 20 (and have more real world experience) but can play a convincing 14 year old because that's what you look like - then this info is important. Same thing if your look is particularly suited to certain roles - so 'athletic build' is important if you are muscular. Extra talents such as playing musical instruments make a difference, and a small, high quality headshot often are useful. So once you have all the employability info, then you can do the education stuff. Having enough info on the first page to make somebody rifling through them stop and read, is the key. If you look right, nobody will care if you have A Levels and a Degree - or not!
So a picture, useful info and some related past jobs work well. Many people have a kind of 'master' CV that they edit for each job rather than just one. So if it's going to a musical theatre producer, then take out the stuff thaqt could suggest it's not your thing,leaving the musical theatre history at the top - if the CV is thin,then put the acting stuff back in as a second 'other genres' after the most important ones.
When you list shows - the critical factors are title, status (amateur/professional), role, venue - IF you have good answers, if your CV has more of chorus/amateur/church hall entries,then you'll need to be a bit more, er, creative with the descriptions to stop it getting round filing cabineted.
So a picture, useful info and some related past jobs work well. Many people have a kind of 'master' CV that they edit for each job rather than just one. So if it's going to a musical theatre producer, then take out the stuff thaqt could suggest it's not your thing,leaving the musical theatre history at the top - if the CV is thin,then put the acting stuff back in as a second 'other genres' after the most important ones.
When you list shows - the critical factors are title, status (amateur/professional), role, venue - IF you have good answers, if your CV has more of chorus/amateur/church hall entries,then you'll need to be a bit more, er, creative with the descriptions to stop it getting round filing cabineted.
Re: Cv
here's a link to a thread on this subject:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12390&p=156094&hili ... ts#p156094
I put "credits" into the search box on NAPM and came up with a few interesting threads
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12390&p=156094&hili ... ts#p156094
I put "credits" into the search box on NAPM and came up with a few interesting threads